AllenLowe

my all time favorite ending chord.

any chance that they'll market all of this on a DVD?

I also have, from about the same time, a wonderful recording of Dick backing Dickey Wells -

it depends - I would be interested in what he is interpreting as as an artifact - which can be introduced with processes that are not necessarily reducing high end. Also, we may hear something which we think was an artifact but which was actually a noise that was already there, but was previously masked by a noise which has now been removed.

anybody for Fat Barbie?

Ron, whatever happened to "buy American" ? you disloyal or something? Next you'll be telling us to make purchases from Bin Laden's Big House of Music. Or Amazon Al Queda.

there's a great live LP with Roy Eldridge and Richie Kamuca -

I am absolutely devastated by this - Dick and I were pretty close in the '80s, though only sporadically in touch the last 10 years or so - brilliant man, fine writer and critic, musically astute; he played my wedding in '82. A true gentleman of jazz, as Symphony Sid would have said, a witness to a lot of important music and musicians.

a truly great man - this is awful.

good idea. Has anyone actually read the Ladnier book yet?

anybody ever see him do his Dracula thing with Lenny Bruce? There's a clip of it somewhere.

there's a terrific lp/cd of work he did with some British hard boppers (released on Black Lion; I think it had Peter King). Great session, shows them Brits can swing if you kick their arses -

Philly Joe was Bill Evans' favorite drummer, and in the '70s they did some recording together - Evans wanted to make him part of the trio, but unfortunately Jones was having too many "personal problems," as they used to say.

Paps! Oy veh - take it easy, please - keep us informed of your condition -

the truth is that the average jazz critic is no worse than the average jazz musician. Neither is more nor less essential than the other, in my opinion. I'll take one Larry Kart for about 12 Diana Kralls. (and a bass player to be named later)

has he responded? Did you use his UC email?

you actually should send them to Robin, for the paperback edition -

I still have the book - it's a keeper - just was too tired to look it up.

I knew there was something wrong with this book.....how does the index list it?

what I always do is carefully remove the cover and handle the book carefully and keep the receipt - in this case the booked still looked mint. The problem with it was it was just basically a list of who did what, when, and "this guy was really good" type prose. Nothing I was unaware of before reading the book, very little insight (though some interesting info on Sid Nathan; that was about all). Just not enough depth to make it worth the money. No new insight into the music or the musicians. A big disappointment.

Jeff - happy b day to one of the nicest people I've met here - (of course, everyone is NICE here - but you know what I mean) -

Chris - I'd love to read the Ladnier book, but since it's not a Border's thing that's returnable, for me the risk is too great, financially. True, I was quite pleasantly surprised by the Monk book, but the chances of lightning striking twice in this way are....slim. I'm sure the Ladnier book is well-researched and nicely produced. I just have too many books that sit on the shelf as great collections of detail that remain collections of detail. If the book were more reasonably priced I would jump on it. To me, it's a little beyond reach. and I basically agree with Steve - interpretation by itself is not necessarily a good thing. It requires certain levels of judgment and discernment. Obviously I was not discarding that requirement - it's the difference between, say, Leslie Gourse and Chris Albertson. but to just accept the facts because it's safer is not acceptable to me - because they don't mean anything without a guiding intellect to organize and interpret - and it's possible the Ladnier book fits this criterion - but I won't find out, at that price. and it's interesting because I JUST returned a book, call The King Of Queen City (about King Records) because of that very reason - the writer did his research but had no personal sense of how to evaluate it or integrate it intellectually. So it's like a grocery list rather than a book.

does Nichols have any heirs?

" I like my jazz books factual more than interpretative" well, that's fine, but not really a description of a book - not trying to start a fight here, we can obviously all live with our own decisions - but basically when I read a book like that it's more like reading the research - interpretation is essential. Otherwise it's like listening to jazz records where they just keep playing the sheet music melody over and over.

actually I just did -